The Last Time Anyone Ever Sees Bell Almore

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Ethel Lanive and Holly Crippen kept seeing each other for years. Ethel tells her friends at the party that she's become engaged, Crippen and Bell are married. They have a three course meal with some friends from the music hall ladies' guild but then Paul starts to feel ill. So Crippen goes outside to find a taxi, you can call the taxis in those days, they're all horse drawn. The last time anyone ever sees Bell alive is on July 8th when she walks out of their North London home without saying goodbye.

In February of 1910, members of the Music Hall Ladies Guild in London received a strange letter from their treasurer – a singer who went by the name Belle Elmore. It said that she suddenly had to travel to the United States, and that she was resigning from her position.

Several weeks later, at the Music Hall Ladies Guild fundraising ball, Belle's husband arrived with a date. And she was wearing Belle's brooch.

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